• @[email protected]
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    215 months ago

    That’s not an axiom or definition, it’s a consequence of the axioms that define arithmetic and can therefore be proven.

    • @[email protected]
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      -45 months ago

      There are versions of math where that isn’t true, with infinitesimals that are not equal to zero. So I think it is an axium rather than a provable conclusion.

      • Jack Riddle
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        75 months ago

        Those versions have different axioms from which different things can be proven, but we don’t define 9.9 repeating as 1

      • @Feathercrown
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        25 months ago

        That’s not what “axiom” means